add about $41 billion for new york, it's $19 billion for new york city and another $9 billion in costs to protect the power grid going forward. so, yes, hurricane sandy ranks near the top of all u.s. natural disasters in terms of cost, but it doesn't approach the full cost of hurricane katrina right now, jenna. jenna: some important context for us there, liz. who's going pay for the billions and billions? >> yeah, that's an important question. 75% of the reimbursement costs for things like mass transit is covered by the federal government; but now new york state and new jersey are asking the federal government to pay potentially 90% to 100%, and governor andrew cuomo of new york is saying, you know what? he does not want new york taxpayers to pay anything towards the cost of hurricane sandy. here is governor cuomo on that. >> to try to finance that through taxes would incapacitate this state. my philosophy isn't change tax increases are always the last, last, last resort. >> and here's the thing, too, in hurricane irene, new york state did pick up a lot of the costs there, but hurrican